if i remember right English is in fact one of the top 5 languages with the most words - yes, in part because of the foreign words that have been absorbed, but that's not all.... just for fun i did a search on leo.org for entwicklung, and look at this:

Bloody hell, its so much about context that it's used in, I know with some word in the pass from other languages I have used its about context, most confusing, I am but a simple Englsh person lol but most of them make sesne and could apply to the context i know the word from